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From my own personal male hetero dating experience, I got the impression date #3 was a common turning point.
Making "a move" on her on the first date might be perceived by her as an insinuated insult, that she was of loose moral character. BUT !
Failing to make "a move" on her by or after the third date is tantamount to declaring her undesirable. Based on that:

John Stewart on homophobia #880
Not quite clear to me why guys would care much one way or another about the sexual preference of the men they encounter. I don't.
If a homophobe is agitated in the presence of a gay man, is the concern that the gay will make "a move" on him? Or that he will not? (thereby insulting the homophobe as undesirable, injuring his fragile hetero male ego?)
 
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Amber Briggle

I know this family and celebrated their bold move from Chicago to South Dakota, and was thrilled when I heard they were opening a bookstore. I even purchased a few children's books from them online to be shipped here to Texas in order to support their dream.

Now they're selling the town's one and only bookstore and seeking safety in New England. Internally displaced political refugees in the United States — all because of anti-trans laws that harm their innocent 10 year old daughter.

From the article:

"Mike knew people sometimes talked about laws that limit trans rights as if they only affect transgender people and their families. But those laws have ripple effects, he knew. Vermillion wasn’t just losing a random family. It was losing beloved community members, and if the sale didn’t work out, the town would lose its bookstore, too."

SOURCE

The actual article - sorry, it's behind a paywall

 
they're selling the town's one and only bookstore and seeking safety in New England. "#882
"You can run, but you can't hide." Paul Harvey

Perhaps not out of malice, but instead basic economic evolution, corporate America (Barnes & Noble, Amazon, etc) have elbowed Mom & Pop aside.
I'm glad a little foot pressure on the accelerator pedal has replaced whipping the horse for a little extra performance

but can't deny the sentimental charm of the neighborhood bookstore.
 
MAGA! (Mandatory American Genitals Assessment)

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For the protection of your privacy: mandatory inspections for every person wishing to enter an American bathroom, regardless of citizenship status or age. Noncompliance will lead to a one-way ticket to Cecot and a fine of $470, with a habeas corpus exemption. Persons suspected of having undergone genital surgery of any kind will be subjected to pat downs and a more comprehensive verification process.

Use of pronouns will increase the fine to $25,000 plus a misdemeanor charge. The crotch inspector will determine what qualifies as a pronoun at their own discretion. Claims about constitutional rights or invoking the name of Epstein will be criminally handled as obstruction of law enforcement.

A picture of the inspected area will be added to your bathroom passport on the extended Real ID database. Pictures must be renewed every 6 months. For your protection, the picture database will be freely available to the public on a new platform developed by Doge, using taxpayer funds saved from the dismantling of the wasteful Department of Education. Individual crotches will be searchable using the subject’s birth name or SSN.

The Department of Gender Compliance is seeking applicants for crotch inspector agent openings, to be employed in 16-hour shifts outside all bathrooms in the nation, including unisex and family restrooms, which have recently been declared un-American and illegal tools of woke ideology, and soon to be demolished, following the recent signing of the executive order “Protecting Women from .....

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Pete Hegseth Reposts Video of His Pastor Criticizing A Woman’s Right To Vote

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Full video:
Doug Wilson, a self-described Christian nationalist, doesn’t believe women should vote, serve in military combat, or be in church leadership.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted, with an endorsement, a video of pastors associated with his church saying that women shouldn’t vote, sodomy should be illegal again across the nation, and that each town, each state, the nation, and the world ought to be Christian.

“All of Christ for All of Life,” Hegseth wrote on X.

The CNN interview features Doug Wilson, a self-described “Christian Nationalist” and senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, and other leaders describing their view of what America should look like. The church just opened a location in DC, which held its inaugural service in a building owned by the Conservative Partnership Institute, a think tank co-led by President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to CNN.

Christianity Today reports that, during a service several weeks ago, “Children in the pews whispered excitedly when Hegseth entered, and the defense secretary was mobbed by supporters as he left the church.” The defense secretary, who is a parishioner, has previously praised Wilson, saying that the current generation is “standing on the shoulders” of leaders like him.

In the CNN interview, reporter Pamala Brown asked Wilson, “Is planting a church in DC part of your plan to turn this into a Christian nation?” “Yes,” he replied, noting earlier in the interview, “I’d like to see the town be a Christian town. I’d like to see the state be a Christian state. I’d like to see the nation be a Christian nation. I’d like to see the world be a Christian world.

”Brown asked Wilson a series of questions about his views on women in the church and public life. Wilson calls himself “patriarchal,” celebrated the Dobbs decision as a gift from God and Trump, has said voting should come from households, which men should typically run, and that women shouldn’t hold any positions of power in the church that “involve exercising authority over men.” Wilson, a veteran himself, believes that women shouldn’t be in military combat. Secretary Hegseth has also said he’s against women in combat roles.

“Women,” Wilson began in the CNN interview, “are the kind of people that people come out of.” “So,” Brown asked back, “you just think they’re meant to have babies?”

“It doesn’t take any talent to simply reproduce biologically,” Wilson replied. “The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four of five eternal souls.” Brown then says that she is a working journalist and a mother of three. “Good for you,” he said. “Is that an issue for you?” she asked. “No, it’s not automatically an issue,” he replied.

CNN also asked other pastors from the church if women should be allowed to vote. Toby Sumpter, a senior pastor, said that, in his “ideal society,” we would vote as households. “And I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote,” he said. “But I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household.” Jared Longshore, another pastor, said he would support repealing the 19th Amendment.

 
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The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has passed a motion at its National Conference that recognises innate variations of sex characteristics "as natural variations in humans".

It also calls for the deferral of all non-urgent medical and surgical interventions for people who can't give consent.

In March 2023, the ACT introduced Australia’s first laws to protect intersex people from such medical procedures so they can decide what happens to their own bodies - and are not left with the physical and psychological scars of medical decisions made without their say.

It’s now time for all the other states and territories in Australia to finally follow the ACT’s lead and protect the rights of all intersex people in medical settings.

The motion will now advance to the AMA’s Federal Council.

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Note that this refers to intersex people, not trans individuals
 
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